complex systems gets a bad reputation and i analogized it to artificial intelligence hitting a roadblock when perceptrons couldn't do XOR - one bad sign and the field died more than it should have before picking back up again after deep networks

i think agent based modeling, etc. didn't go as far as it could have, didn't merge enough concepts as it could have, etc. - the field overpromised and underdelivered - but it's bottlenecked on a complex system (AGIs) to help study the other complex systems